Ester asked why people are sad.
“That’s simple,” says the old man. “They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams.”
-Paulo Coelho
"The Zahir"
Quotations
Dream
If a man wants his dreams to come true he must wake up.
-Habeed Akande
Do not plant your dreams in the field of indecision, where nothing ever grows but the weeds of what-if.
-Dodinsky
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees dawn before the rest of the world.
-Oscar Wilde
A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams
-Dejan Stojanović
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
-Henry David Thoreau
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.
-Mary Manin Morrissey
If you can dream it, you can do it.
-Walt Disney
Sometimes we give up our dream to accept a larger role in someone else's dream.
-Robert Brault
